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Rekonq

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rekonq is a lightweight, QtWebKit-based web browser for the KDE desktop environment. It integrates into KDE, e.g. downloading files through KDE download system, sharing bookmarks with Konqueror, KIO support, etc. Its code was initially based on QtDemoBrowser and currently is deve...

Relational presentation

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Relational presentation (also known as visually interactive presentation) uses standard presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint or Keynote in a way that, unlike most presentation structures, allows dynamic customization of messages while presenting.Basic conceptsRelati...

Relationship of Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill

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The relationship between pioneer Christian rock musicians Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill, sometimes described as the Lennon-McCartney of Christian rock, was a controversial one during its more than forty years from its inception in 1967 until Norman's death in February 2008. Fo...

Relationships in Arab tradition

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Arab tradition regarding relationships and marriage is not written. It is transmitted from generation to generation usually orally or by practice. In Arab tradition, it's not considered taboo for Muslim men to marry Christians or Jews, while for a woman to marry outside her commu...

Relative displacement of media

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During the 1980s the future of the book was endlessly debated in publishing circles. Before the widespread use of PCs or the invention of the Internet the threats were seen as TV and, later, CD-ROMs. The same concerns are still being voiced. One approach is to see what we can lea...

Relative Silence

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Relative Silence was a Spanish progressive metal band from Asturias formed in 1998 by guitarist Pablo GarcĂ­a and drummer Daniel Cabal, as a result of the metal band Presto's dissolution.HistoryPablo and Daniel opted for new musical variants, and to create a new band. Months went ...

Relativistic mass distortion

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Relativistic Mass DistortionPart I: Mass Distortion by Velocity It has long been known that as an object approaches the speed of light (c), its mass increases without bound. If a moving object passes by you (a stationary observer) at a substantial fraction of a speed of light, th...

Relativity of reality

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In the context of simulated reality, people face the difficulty to tell the world we are living in is virtual or real. Such a confusion leads people to investigate the possibility that we are living in a simulation (simulation argument). For example, Nick Bostrom argued about the...

Relatos desde el Umbral

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Tales from the Threshold (Relatos desde el Umbral) is a 2007 horror novel by Spanish author Roberto Julio Alamo.PlotThe objective of this saga is to make a tribute to one of the greatest writers of horror and science fiction of the twentieth century, Howard Philips Lovecraft. To ...

Relay Resources

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Relay Resources, formerly Portland Habilitation Center and then PHC Northwest, provides education, training, employment and housing for people with disabilities in the states of Oregon and Washington. It is a nonprofit organization and considered a Qualified Rehabilitation Facili...

Relay Ventures

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Relay Ventures is a Canadian venture capital firm with offices on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park and Toronto. The firm is focused on investing in early-stage mobile ventures throughout North America. The Firm The firm has raised over $800 million since inception, and is currently i...

Release Me (Tevlo song)

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"Release Me" is a single by Tevlo. The song features Canadian singer-songwriter Veela released as a song content of music software FL Studio. The song has made it to song list of FL Studio 12 tracklist. It won the 2015 FL Studio Demo Song Contest competition which was announced b...

Release of hostage Christina Meier

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Christina Barbara Meier, a 5 month pregnant German aid worker for Ora international, was kidnapped while eating at a restaurant in Kabul on August 18, 2007, and appeared on a video the next day calling for the release of prisoners. Christina was freed on August 19, 2007 after Nor...

Release strategy of Up in the Air

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Up in the Air is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner.Jason Reitman has heavily promoted Up in the Air with personal appearances during film festivals and other showings. He indicated that he could relate to that...

Release The Drones

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Release The Drones is the unreleased seventh studio album from English rock band Supergrass. The band publicly announced their decision to split on 12th April, 2010 leaving the album incomplete.In early 2010, the band revealed that the album had been influenced by krautrock bands...

RelentENGINE

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RelentENGINE is a next-generation first-person shooter game engine developed by Itlit Software for the video game Relent: The Fallen. The RelentENGINE technology was developed with the aim of bridging the gap between pre-compiled and dynamic shadowing; it focuses on support for m...

Relevance paradox

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The relevance paradox describes an attempt to gather information relevant to a decision, which fails because the elimination of information perceived as distracting or unnecessary and thus detrimental to making an optimal decision, can also inadvertently exclude information that ...

Relevance realization

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Relevance realization is a theory that claims to solve the frame problem, the binding problem, the problem of what cognition is made of and the problems facing the creation of artificial intelligence. A number of researchers including John Vervaeke and Ronald de Sousa (both from ...

Relevant space

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Relevant Space refers to a market research methodology developed to overcome the shortcomings of traditional brand tracking and brand choice techniques. Crafted by researchers at Cisco Systems (Bryan Maach and Engeli Gagni) and Directions Research Inc. (Dennis Q. Murphy and Rober...

Reliable array of independent nodes

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Reliable/redundant array of independent/inexpensive nodes (RAIN) is an architectural approach to computing and network-attached computer storage (or NAS), that combines commodity or low-cost computing hardware with management software to address the reliability and availability s...

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